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Handbook of Research Methods for Corporate Governance
This Handbook provides an incisive, rigorous and contemporary guide to research methods in the continually evolving area of corporate governance, offering a welcome focus on holistic approaches to research. Not only analysing existing research methods dominated by the quantitative-qualitative dichotomy, it also explores the crucial need to challenge assumptions and methodologies in order to advance research in the field.
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This Handbook provides an incisive, rigorous and contemporary guide to research methods in the continually evolving area of corporate governance, offering a welcome focus on holistic approaches to research. Not only analysing existing research methods dominated by the quantitative-qualitative dichotomy, it also explores the crucial need to challenge assumptions and methodologies in order to advance research in the field.
Engaging with critical discussions of corporate governance, this Handbook presents novel approaches to research designs and practices including data collection, sampling and analysis in corporate governance, encouraging scholars to move beyond existing paradigms and conceptions. Its coupling of case studies with theoretical approaches allows the Handbook to scrutinise basic issues in the field while also delving into unknown territory to advance and, indeed, revolutionise methods. Chapters offer a timely opportunity to explore, revisit and critically examine new methodological insights and innovations in the corporate governance scholarship with the purpose of advancing diversity and novel theorising in this field.
This Handbook presents an engaging, innovative and invaluable guide to researchers and higher education students in corporate governance and business management, along with scholars investigating research methods in the corporate governance field.
Engaging with critical discussions of corporate governance, this Handbook presents novel approaches to research designs and practices including data collection, sampling and analysis in corporate governance, encouraging scholars to move beyond existing paradigms and conceptions. Its coupling of case studies with theoretical approaches allows the Handbook to scrutinise basic issues in the field while also delving into unknown territory to advance and, indeed, revolutionise methods. Chapters offer a timely opportunity to explore, revisit and critically examine new methodological insights and innovations in the corporate governance scholarship with the purpose of advancing diversity and novel theorising in this field.
This Handbook presents an engaging, innovative and invaluable guide to researchers and higher education students in corporate governance and business management, along with scholars investigating research methods in the corporate governance field.
Critical Acclaim
‘Getting to research corporate boards has never been easy. This book opens the door for researchers to understand board dynamics, rules, structures and contexts from different methodological perspectives, advancing and refining the findings on corporate governance research.’
– Patricia Gabaldon Quiñones, IE Business School, Spain
‘The new Handbook of Research Methods for Corporate Governance is a remarkable, and extremely important, scholarly achievement. Taking their point of departure in the corporate governance field’s urgent need for a more pluralistic and creative pallet of research methods, the editors bring together an impressive set of scholars who share their experiences and insights on how we can develop knowledge that is more theoretically rigorous and practically relevant for a new era. I highly recommend this amazing volume to all scholars and practitioners thirsty for understanding how we can best understand contemporary challenges in corporate governance.’
– Mattias Nordqvist, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
‘This is an insightful and comprehensive collection of articles, which brings to the fore the richness of methods and methodological approaches in corporate governance research. In assembling the volume, the editors have moved beyond simplistic dichotomies of qualitative and quantitative research and stimulate the reader to think holistically and contextually about corporate governance research. This is a valuable resource for anyone interested in governance research.’
– Silk Machold, University of Wolverhampton, UK
– Patricia Gabaldon Quiñones, IE Business School, Spain
‘The new Handbook of Research Methods for Corporate Governance is a remarkable, and extremely important, scholarly achievement. Taking their point of departure in the corporate governance field’s urgent need for a more pluralistic and creative pallet of research methods, the editors bring together an impressive set of scholars who share their experiences and insights on how we can develop knowledge that is more theoretically rigorous and practically relevant for a new era. I highly recommend this amazing volume to all scholars and practitioners thirsty for understanding how we can best understand contemporary challenges in corporate governance.’
– Mattias Nordqvist, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
‘This is an insightful and comprehensive collection of articles, which brings to the fore the richness of methods and methodological approaches in corporate governance research. In assembling the volume, the editors have moved beyond simplistic dichotomies of qualitative and quantitative research and stimulate the reader to think holistically and contextually about corporate governance research. This is a valuable resource for anyone interested in governance research.’
– Silk Machold, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Contributors
Contributors: Abdullah Alajmi, Linda Baines, Anup Banerjee, Rosario Bianco, Bruno Buchetti, Sergio Bulgacov, Giuseppe Calabrese, Lei Chen, Duncan Connors, Eugenio D’Angelo, Lucia Michela Daniele, Jo Danbolt, Ivo De Loo, Muthu de Silva, Francesco Gangi, Vadim Grinevich, John Holland, Morten Huse, Luciana Iwashita-da-Silva, Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Nadeem Khan, Wafa Khlif, Nada Korac-Kakabadse, Bill Lee, Hugo Letiche, Piero Mastroberardino, Fabio Oliveira, Andrew Perchard, Amedeo Pugliese, Francesca Romana Arduino, Matthew Sorola, Andrew C. Worthington, Daniel Yar Hamidi, Alessandro Zattoni
Contents
Contents:
Preface ix
PART I NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
1 Employing historical methods and perspectives in corporate governance 2
Duncan Connors and Andrew Perchard
2 Understanding persistence and change in corporate governance
rules, structures and practices in the situationist view of organisations 20
Piero Mastroberardino and Giuseppe Calabrese
3 Ethics and research methodology in the studying of corporate
governance 39
Ivo De Loo and Hugo Letiche
PART II NEW RESEARCH DESIGNS
4 Building new theories and a specific concept for boards of
directors: the practicholar research design 57
Daniel Yar Hamidi and Wafa Khlif
5 In search of relevance: exploring board work in hybrid
organizations through an engaged scholarship approach 71
Anup Banerjee
6 Polymorphic research and boards of directors: let us make
a better world together 90
Morten Huse and Muthu de Silva
7 Inclusive governance of partnerships for sustainability:
methodological matters 110
Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Linda Baines and Vadim Grinevich
PART III NEW APPROACHES TO EMPIRICAL STUDIES
8 Understanding persistence and change in corporate governance
rules, structures and practices: from shareholder logic to
stakeholder logic in the US model 129
Piero Mastroberardino, Giuseppe Calabrese and Rosario Bianco
9 Disentangling corporate social responsibility: the impact
of corporate governance on the social and environmental
performance of pharmaceutical and biotech firms 160
Francesco Gangi, Eugenio D’Angelo and Lucia Michela Daniele
10 Expanding discussions on incentives on corporate governance:
employees’ compensation and organizational justice 199
Luciana Iwashita-da-Silva and Sergio Bulgacov
11 Using Q methodology to open the “black box” of corporate
governance 223
Matthew Sorola
12 Innovative application of digital technologies in rapid change
phenomena in boards 245
Fabio Oliveira, Nadeem Khan and Nada Korac-Kakabadse
13 The methodological challenges to opening up the black box of
boardroom dynamics 268
Amedeo Pugliese, Alessandro Zattoni, Bruno Buchetti, and
Francesca Romana Arduino
14 Qualitative insights into corporate governance reform,
management decision-making, and accounting performance:
semi-structured interview evidence from Kuwait 291
Abdullah Alajmi and Andrew C. Worthington
15 Integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches in corporate
governance research 322
Lei Chen, Jo Danbolt, John Holland and Bill Lee
Index 342
Preface ix
PART I NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
1 Employing historical methods and perspectives in corporate governance 2
Duncan Connors and Andrew Perchard
2 Understanding persistence and change in corporate governance
rules, structures and practices in the situationist view of organisations 20
Piero Mastroberardino and Giuseppe Calabrese
3 Ethics and research methodology in the studying of corporate
governance 39
Ivo De Loo and Hugo Letiche
PART II NEW RESEARCH DESIGNS
4 Building new theories and a specific concept for boards of
directors: the practicholar research design 57
Daniel Yar Hamidi and Wafa Khlif
5 In search of relevance: exploring board work in hybrid
organizations through an engaged scholarship approach 71
Anup Banerjee
6 Polymorphic research and boards of directors: let us make
a better world together 90
Morten Huse and Muthu de Silva
7 Inclusive governance of partnerships for sustainability:
methodological matters 110
Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Linda Baines and Vadim Grinevich
PART III NEW APPROACHES TO EMPIRICAL STUDIES
8 Understanding persistence and change in corporate governance
rules, structures and practices: from shareholder logic to
stakeholder logic in the US model 129
Piero Mastroberardino, Giuseppe Calabrese and Rosario Bianco
9 Disentangling corporate social responsibility: the impact
of corporate governance on the social and environmental
performance of pharmaceutical and biotech firms 160
Francesco Gangi, Eugenio D’Angelo and Lucia Michela Daniele
10 Expanding discussions on incentives on corporate governance:
employees’ compensation and organizational justice 199
Luciana Iwashita-da-Silva and Sergio Bulgacov
11 Using Q methodology to open the “black box” of corporate
governance 223
Matthew Sorola
12 Innovative application of digital technologies in rapid change
phenomena in boards 245
Fabio Oliveira, Nadeem Khan and Nada Korac-Kakabadse
13 The methodological challenges to opening up the black box of
boardroom dynamics 268
Amedeo Pugliese, Alessandro Zattoni, Bruno Buchetti, and
Francesca Romana Arduino
14 Qualitative insights into corporate governance reform,
management decision-making, and accounting performance:
semi-structured interview evidence from Kuwait 291
Abdullah Alajmi and Andrew C. Worthington
15 Integrating quantitative and qualitative approaches in corporate
governance research 322
Lei Chen, Jo Danbolt, John Holland and Bill Lee
Index 342
